# refutar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin refūtāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [rə.fuˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [re.fuˈtaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

### Verb

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refutí, past participle refutat)
* to refute

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “refutar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “refutar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “refutar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “refutar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin refūtō.

### Verb

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refutei, past participle refutado)
* (transitive) to refute (to prove (something) to be false or incorrect)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

### Further reading

* “refutar” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
* “refutar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “refutar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “refutar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /refuˈtar/

### Verb

refutar (present tense refutas, past tense refutis, future tense refutos, imperative refutez, conditional refutus)
* to refute, to disprove, rebut

#### Conjugation
## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin refūtāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.fuˈta(ʁ)/ [he.fuˈta(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.fuˈta(ʁ)/ [he.fuˈta(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ʁe.fuˈta(ɾ)/ [he.fuˈta(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ʁe.fuˈta(ʁ)/ [χe.fuˈta(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ʁe.fuˈta(ɻ)/ [he.fuˈta(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.fuˈtaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.fuˈtaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ʁɨ.fuˈta.ɾi/

### Verb

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refutei, past participle refutado)
* (transitive) to refute (to prove (something) to be false or incorrect)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* refutável

### Further reading

* “refutar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin refūtāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /refuˈtaɾ/ [re.fuˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: re‧fu‧tar

### Verb

refutar (first-person singular present refuto, first-person singular preterite refuté, past participle refutado)
* to refute
    Synonym: contradecir

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

### Further reading

* “refutar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10